they are, and from what I've heard they will provide the hardware to run their
CDN at no cost to any ISP that will run it on their network.
David Lang
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Graham Dunn wrote:
I find it hard to believe that Netflix isn't already using some sort of CDN.
https://www.netflix.com/openconnect
so they are, kind of.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Mark Bergman <berg...@panix.com> wrote:
On July 29, 2014 6:41:45 PM EDT, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
=> On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Paul Graydon wrote:
=>
=> > On 07/28/14 11:02, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
=> >>> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-
=> >>> boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Leon Towns-von Stauber
=>
=> And as it has also been pointed out, Netflix controls the software at
=> both ends
=> of the connection and the inbound side of it's servers is pretty
=> idle, so it
=> could easily cause the clients to spew traffic back to the servers,
=> "improving"
=> the ratio, but the only benefit would be the game the
=> inbound/outbound ratio, it
=> would actually harm the Internet overall.
=>
=> They could probably push the ratio above 1:1 as a lot of people have
=> uplinks
=> that are faster than the max downlink speeds that Netflic provides.
=>
Hmmm... I wonder about re-architecting Netflix so that each customer
caches their downloaded content and serves it P2P within the same ISP
network...now that content from Netflix doesn't cross any peering points.
Lots of possible problems, but it's an interesting exercise.
Mark
=>
=> David Lang
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